On Sun, 2 Mar 2014 15:06:29 +0100, Jean-Marie Poirier wrote > Maybe Visée first met Louis XIV who stayed in Vizé for a couple of > days in the then famous "Maison Houbart" in 1672 and 1675, during > the Franco-Dutch War... He was with the musketeer d'Artagnan who got > killed in 1673 during the siege of Maastricht.
.. being killed just a few feet away from a certain Captian Churchill (which later became the Duke of Malborough) - what a small world ;-) > Real facts but Yes, indeed. D'Artagnan's biography was first published between 1700 and 1701 as "The Memoirs of M. d'Artagnan, Captain-Lieutnant in the First Company of the King's Musketeers", Cologne/Amsterdam, by Gatien de Courtliz de Sandras [1]. > the > rest is pure conjecture and my imagination, of course... ;-) ! As always ;-) > Have a nice sunday, Same to you RalfD [1] Richard Cohen, "By the Sword, A History of Gladiators, Musketeers ..", Random House, 2002. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
